flip-flop
- n a decision to reverse an earlier decision
- n a backless sandal held to the foot by a thong between the big toe and the second toe
- n an electronic circuit that can assume either of two stable states
- n a backward somersault
- v reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- Rumania flip-flopped last week out of the war on the German side into the war on the Allied side.
- He growls when you say, "Al Gore," and retrieves a flip-flop when you mention John Kerry.
- It's hard to remember now, but there was once a time when "flip-flop" was not the scarlet letter of presidential politics.